Chapter 168: Quest (Subscription Requested)
Half a month later, the desolate town of Field welcomed a new batch of guests.
It was the expeditionary force from the base of the Georgia People's Federation, who had come to occupy this special institute on the orders of President Lyons.
In order to fight without accidents, in addition to the large number of soldiers occupied by Colonel Frank, Leon also sent twenty members of the Stinger Squad of four squads at one time this time, as well as Dr. Mason, who volunteered to show his value in front of the new boss.
In order to completely occupy the institute, Colonel Frank did not rush to send people directly into it, but first established a defensive front at the gate of the Mason Psychiatric Healing Center.
With the help of the walls of the recuperation center, it was transformed into a well-equipped defensive stronghold by digging trenches, building guard towers, reinforcing walls, and arranging heavy machine guns.
After all, if you want to occupy this area in the future, the field town outside the recuperation center also needs to clear all the monsters inside, and the survivors must not be allowed to stay with the monsters, and various accidents may occur at any time.
And this battle, long before the departure, after several days of deduction by the staff department, coupled with the full support of Lyon, everyone is very sure of this battle.
After arriving at the Mason Psychiatric Retreat Center, a team of hundreds of people happened to live in a large house in the recuperation center, which was originally arranged for a large number of mentally ill people to live, except for the environment is a little dirty, single rooms, double rooms, kitchens, living rooms, and all kinds of daily necessities.
After storing the weapons and supplies they had brought, everyone could not sit idle, and immediately under the command of Colonel Frank and his adjutants, they began to make various preparations with a clear division of labor.
Most of the soldiers were assigned to the gates of the recuperation center, where they were responsible for taking advantage of the terrain and building defensive strongholds.
The technicians, named Combat Engineers by Sherman, begin to control drones, mechanical dogs, and other intelligent combat equipment to investigate the town's monsters before the battle begins.
In the last battle, Frank had already led a group of soldiers to clean up the mutated zombies near the recuperation center, ensuring safety within a few hundred meters of the vicinity.
However, the small town of Felder is already within the limits of the radiation zone and has been exposed to a large amount of nuclear radiation for a long time.
In the long five years, most of the zombies in the town have mutated to varying degrees, except for most of the ordinary mutated zombies that only increase their strength and speed, those terrifying special mutant zombies are the more troublesome things.
However, in order to deal with those terrifying mutant monsters, Leon also sent out one of the strongest individual strength among the combat units of the Human Federation, that is, the giant covered with super strong alloy armor, Claymanting's little friend, Giant Tom.
Speaking of which, the tamed giant Tom is simply a bug-level existence in this kind of small-scale battle.
He has great strength, speed, and stamina, not only can he use it as a large animal, but in the face of any battle, this guy can enter combat mode in an instant, bursting out with super destructive power.
Under his huge alloy mace, most of the mutant monsters can't survive the second stick and fall, and they will be slapped into small pies.
Moreover, in the radiation zone, there is no need to prepare any supplies and food for this guy at all, and any mutated monster, as long as it is not the kind that contains particularly powerful poison, can become the ration of Giant Tom and provide him with power.
Even when building a defensive stronghold, a seven-meter-tall giant with a huge shovel can dig a dirt pit more efficiently than an ordinary excavator.
However, although Frank likes to call the giant to work, he is a little unhappy to see the giant Tom being treated like a cow and a horse, and has always treated him as a little friend.
After so many years, the little girl has grown to the age of seventeen or eighteen years, with a slender figure and a heroic appearance, and has become a very good female warrior.
A few years ago, he graduated from the military academy and joined the Stinger team, becoming a special presence in the team.
As the giant's animal tamer, a girl who has always grown up in a family in Lyon, she has undoubtedly become a very trustworthy existence under the president.
Even in her squad, protecting Claymanting's personal safety is a fairly high priority.
After three busy days, the all-hands army finally began to clean up the small town of Field.
However, contrary to some people's expectations, the whole clean-up process, except for a little trouble, is actually not much dangerous.
There is not much difference from the last time Frank cleared out the mutant zombies, in order to prevent attracting all the mutant zombies in the town at once, this time, they did not use too powerful explosive weapons.
Instead, just like last time, dozens of snipers were ambushed on the high-rise buildings of the newly built guard tower and the recuperation center, and the zombies in the entire town were divided into four areas by using drones and bait bile developed by the Ministry of Scientific Research.
After a certain number of zombies have formed, snipers still take the lead in sniping those corroders with weak defenses and self-exposed zombies to prevent this monster with long-range attack power from harming the soldiers in the stronghold.
Unlike the last battle, with sufficient preparation time, the trenches and earth pits they dug can effectively block the siege of tank-type zombies and ordinary mutant zombies.
Although they have some simple intelligence, these mutated zombies still can't resist the temptation of the living, and rush straight towards the location of the trap.
The attack, which could only walk on the ground, prevented them from getting in close contact with the soldiers, and they fell into a pit four or five meters deep.
Without even sending Clermanting and Giant Tom, the soldiers can use the range advantage to slowly destroy the mutated zombies that have fallen into the pit.
As for the last hunter-type zombies who can jump and cross the pit, even if they break through the layers of obstacles, what they are facing is still a defensive stronghold composed of countless defense facilities, and an armored death corps that is at the forefront of resisting.
Their weak claws do no harm to the Death Corps.
Even if the mutated zombies in the radiation zone have undergone a deeper mutation, even if they are not afraid of life and death, have no sense of pain, and are huge in number, they are still unable to resist, and there is a gap in intelligence between them and humans.
Perhaps, for the scattered survivors, these mutated monsters are quite terrifying and difficult to deal with.
However, as long as there is intelligence and preparation for battle, these mutant monsters are no more difficult to deal with than those ancient soldiers or primitive people.
Just like now, with Colonel Frank's precise and efficient arrangement, although it took them three days to set up traps and defend strongholds, it only took one day to wipe out the mutated zombies in Field Town.
And there were basically no casualties.
However, it is a pity that in order to make the movement of this combat team more convenient, the People's Federation did not send too many logistics personnel over.
As a result, the corpses of the thousands of mutant zombies in Field Town, except for some left for the giants to use as food, most of the remaining can only be burned or buried.
After completing the elimination of the zombies in the town, everyone did not rest for too long, and after a short day of rest, they immediately began to explore the research institute again.
This time, with Dr. Mason's intelligence, Colonel Frank also knew that the enemy he was about to face, although it was still more troublesome, but after being prepared, there would be no unnecessary sacrifices like last time.
There are about six groups of monsters in the institute, in addition to the humanoid biochemical weapon lickers they have already seen, there are also four biochemical weapons: berserk hounds, bloodsucking bugs, plague crows, and tyrants.
In addition to them, there should be a large number of zombies, after all, in addition to the soldiers and researchers who lived in the institute in the past, recently, Negan also came here with a group of salvation troops who are not afraid of death.
Speaking of Negan, I don't know if this guy is also dead now, according to the information provided by Dwight, the current number of the Salvation Army, there are probably more than a thousand people left.
Because of the outbreak of the nuclear explosion war, as well as the impact of various unfavorable factors after the war.
The Salvation Army's weak workers' system was completely destroyed, and the number of Salvation Army was cut by more than half due to the severe shortage of resources, frequent contradictions between soldiers and workers, and eventually, after a bloody transformation.
Almost all the old people and children lost their lives in that bloody revolution.
The rest of the Salvation Army were reduced to marauders for a living, bound by Negan's fearful tactics and began to oppress and plunder any other survivors they encountered.
At the beginning, in addition to the three survivor camps that escaped with Daryl and others, the seaside hotel and the university camp, including the miners' camp, the other seven or eight survivor camps that had been asked by the Salvation Army to provide offerings were all attacked by the Salvation Army and robbed of all living materials.
And the survivors who survived were either killed for rebellion or enslaved as slaves.
And in those desolate years when food was scarce, where there was food for these slaves to eat, cannibalism became an acceptable means of survival.
According to Dwight, the poor creatures who became slaves not only had to work day and night, but also had to feed on the corpses of the survivors who were also slaves.
Whether they are exhausted to death, or killed for resistance, their bodies will not be wasted.
Those poor worms who have no backbone, dare not resist, and dare not commit suicide, after enduring a long period of mental and physical torture, the guys who survived can no longer be called people, they can only be said to be foreign bodies that are struggling to survive.
It is precisely because of this inhumane life that although everyone in the Salvation Army still fears Negan and obeys his orders, there are not many people who treat him as an apocalyptic belief as they did in the past.
That's why, after losing Negan and the more than 200 Salvation Army fighters he led, no one else came to look for them.
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Inside the dark research institute, hundreds of soldiers were slowly exploring.
With the lesson of the previous time, this time the leader of the team is the giant Tom, who is dressed in heavy tank armor.
In order to cope with this mission, not only are all the accompanying combatants equipped with expensive night vision devices, and their bodies are sprayed with corpse spray that can confuse the zombies' sense of smell, but even the alloy armor on the giant Tom has undergone special modifications.
Not only did he have two powerful lights on his shoulders, but he also installed a number of small flashing lights on his armor to attract the attention of the monsters.
In this mission, the giant Tom not only has to act as a powerful meat shield to attract enemy attacks, but the giant mace in his hand that can directly smash ordinary people into meat patties is also a sharp weapon against these biochemical weapons with strong vitality.
Sure enough, after entering the research institute, it was less than five minutes, and compared to the soldiers who were hiding in the dark, the giant who walked in the front and glowed all over his body immediately attracted the attention of the monsters.
Perhaps they had never seen such a huge prey before, three lickers with their muscles exposed suddenly jumped from the ceiling and landed in the spotlight in front of Tom, opening their mouths full of sharp teeth, sticking out their long tongues, and roaring menacingly at the giant in front of them.
It seems that he wants to use his terrifying appearance and momentum to scare the prey in front of him.
It's a pity that without the assistance of the combat chip, their low intelligence did not perceive the danger of the behemoth in front of them.
Before the giant Tom could react, Clementine, who was following behind him, after receiving Frank's instructions, transmitted his voice to his little friend's ears through the headphones in the helmet.
"Smash them, Tom."
Hearing Clementine's gentle voice, Tom barely hesitated, and immediately grabbed the giant mace in his hand and threw it towards the position of the licker.
Powerful forces burst out at incredible speed.
Blinking, clang, like an iron plate lined up on tofu.
The gravy is overflowing.
A licker with a fierce expression, without saying a word, was smashed into a patty by a giant mace.
Not only were all the muscles in the body destroyed and torn, but even all the bones and organs in the body were scrapped by the tremendous pressure.
Even if the licker's vitality is amazing, comparable to that of a cockroach, and he has not died on the spot, he should not think about making any movements in a short period of time.
And this attack of the giant Tom immediately triggered the attack of the other two lickers, these two artificial mutant monsters did not know what fear was, taking advantage of the mace in the giant's hand, and the gap that had not been pulled up.
They quickly pounced on Tom from different directions.
It's a pity that in the face of the giant's huge, heavy tank's alloy armor, their sharp claws have become quite embarrassing.
No matter how hard they tried, they could only scratch shallow scratches on the surface of the armor.
However, before they could launch a few attacks, under the command of Clementine, the giant Tom put down the giant mace in his hand, and grabbed the bodies of the two lickers with two large hands, one left and one right, like catching mice.
Tom, the giant who was always in a state of hunger, did not dislike it, and directly stuffed the licker in his hand into his own bloody mouth like gnawing on a chicken leg.
Let's chirp, tear up.
These two mutant monsters, which are extremely difficult in the eyes of ordinary survivors, have become food for the giant's mouth without the power to resist.
Jesus, who had been on the watchful note in the procession, chuckled at this scene and said to Dr. Mason, who was under his watch:
"Doctor, it seems that the biological and chemical weapons you have developed are still not as good as these naturally mutated monsters!"
"Aren't your other products stronger?"
(End of chapter)